Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 553, Issue 1-2, Pages 68-72Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(03)00973-6
Keywords
cyanobacterium; energy transfer; glycerol; fluorescence emission; high temperature; phycobilisome
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The effects of glycerol and high temperatures on structure and function of phycobilisomes (PBSs) in vivo were investigated in a chIL deletion mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. When the mutant was grown under light-activated heterotrophic growth conditions, it contained intact and functional PBSs, but essentially no chlorophyll and photosystems. So the structural and functional changes of the mutant PBSs in vivo can be handily detected by measurement of low temperature (77 K) fluorescence emission spectra. High concentration glycerol induced an obvious disassembly of PBSs and the dissociation of phycocyanins in the rod substructures into their oligomers and monomers. PBSs also disassembled at high temperatures and allophycocyanins were more sensitive to heat stress than phycocyanins. Our results demonstrate that the chlL(-) mutant strain is an advantageous model for studying the mechanisms of assembly and disassembly of protein complexes in vivo. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
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